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Nancy holds ebony and sea-shell nameplate brought from Korea
for President Lundquist
Senate Discusses Finance
Committee, Arts Program
The establishment of a financial clearing committee was of primary
importance at the Student Senate meeting held last Tuesday afternoon
in the college chapel. This committee will include the Student Senate
treasurer, the financial secretary, and a treasurer from each council,
and it will collectively decide on whether requests for activity financial
needs will be granted. The treasurer, acting as chairman of the finan-cial
clearing committee, will report to the Senate at its bi-weekly
meeting, and the month's financial expenditures will be officially voted
on.
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Vol. XXXIII—No. 3 Published by Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, November 15, 1955
New Philosophy Course
A new philosophy course fea-turing
Augustine and Kierkegaard
will be offered in the winter quar-ter,
Dr. Clarence Bass has an-nounced.
The new course will be
open to any upper division student
subject to the instructor's ap-proval.
This offering will be a part of
the senior philosophy sequence
which includes Contemporary Phil-osophy,
Kant, and Thomas Aqui-nas.
The teaching of Kant, sched-uled
for winter quarter, will be in-cluded
in the spring quarter with
Thomas Aquinas.
"I felt since most of our stu-dents
do not plan on graduate
work in philosophy, they would
not profit by going into so much
detail on Kant," explained Dr.
Bass, who initiated the change.
"By studying Augustine and Kier-kegaard,
they will gain an under-standing
of the bases of Reformed
theology and of contemporary
theology."
Twilight and
Tinsel Dec.10
The big formal event of the
year, Twilight and Tinsel, will take
place on Saturday evening, Decem-ber
10, 1955.
The tentative place for the ban-quet
will be the Junior Ballroom
Galley four
located at the University of Min-nesota.
Sponsored by the cultural coun-cil,
Twilight and Tinsel is an an-nual
affair.
Caldeen Names
Clarion Staff
Clarion staff appointments for
this year were announced by Edi-tor
Phil Caldeen recently. The
members have been chosen from
approximately fifty who register-ed
a decided interest in working
on the Clarion.
Marilyn Carlson has been ap-pointed
layout editor. Janet Lan-des
is assistant news editor. Dick
Nelson is proofreader. Jim Mac-
Fadyen and Donelda Hoover are
rewriters.
The reporters are Arlene Berg-strom,
Junetta Best, Barbara
Brandt, Luther Bostrack, Mary
Fredrickson, lou Guston, Margie
Kling, Joy Kundy, Lois Larson
and Sharon Kingan.
Typists are Astrid Barbins, Alice
Barnes, Joyce Hellickson, Ramona
Jensen, Emily Mattson, Joan Swit-zer
and Lavonne Tieszen.
The circulation staff includes
manager Betty Nord, Bob Hames,
Ruth Irons and Coreen Berry.
Spire to Go
To Printers
The first section of the 1956
Spire will go to the printer Dec-ember
15. This will include the in-troduction,
the academic section,
and the class pictures.
To make the Spire more repre-sentative
of student life is one of
the goals that the staff has set.
Additional improvements will be
revealed when the yearbook comes
out this spring.
Marge Peterson is the editor of
this year's Spire. Other staff mem-bers
are Carol Martinson, assist-ant
editor; Vivian Weekley, copy
editor; Bob Fischer, business man-ager;
Marilyn Hagstrom, photo-graphy
editor.
Debaters
Speak Up
At Augsburg
Bethel college debate teams took
part in their first intercollegiate
debates on Nov. 10 at Augsburg
college in Minneapolis. Bethel was
represented by four teams com-posed
of Jim MacFadyen and Jack
Tierney, Fred Schindeler and Donn
Goss, Marjory Peterson and Betty
Mattson, and Doug Oelke and
Bruce Richardson. They won five
of their 12 debates.
Thirty-four other teams from
nine other schools also participat-ed
in the Augsburg tournament.
On Nov. 11 two Bethel teams
composed of Chuck Paton and
Donn Goss and Marjory Peterson
and Betty Mattson debated at a
meet at the State Teachers' col-lege
in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The
meet also included contests in ora-tory,
discussion, and extemporan-eous
speaking.
Next Saturday debate coach Lee
Kingsley will take four of his de-baters
to Bradley university in
Peoria, Illiois, for the annual Mid-west
debate tourney. Marjory and
Betty are scheduled to participate
in a women's tournament at Man-kato
State Teachers' college.
Frosh Choir
Makes Debut
The freshman choir made its
initial appearance at Bethlehem
Baptist church last Sunday night
under the direction of Mr. Nels
Stjernstrom, freshman advisor.
The choir sang "All Hail the Pow-er
of Jesus Name," "0 For A
A motion was carried to
grant the cultural council
$150.00 to supplement $450.00
to come from the miscellan-eous
fund for the support of a
Renaissance program to be
presented in the spring. Ex-penditures
for such a program
will include entertainment by
Miss Suzanne Bloch, a lectur-er
from the University of
Minnesota, and rental of two
Shakespearean films.
A recommendation petition will
be submitted to the administration
suggesting the unlocking of the
lounge during chapel services. It
was argued that a locked lounge
defeats the purpose of an open
chapel service, and that students
determined to skip the service will
do so anyway.
A faculty rating program
was approved with the inten-tion
of providing a construc-tive
means for evaluation of
classes and instructors by
Bethel students.
Thousand Tongues," and "Majes-tic
Sweetness Sits Enthroned." A
presentation of testimonies through
the verses of songs was a unique
feature of the program. The class
officers hope that the choir can
make more appearances as a
means of promoting unity in the
class.
FACULTY ACCEPTS
CLARION CHALLENGE
Currently Mr. Gesswein
groups for revival, which is
Twin Cities several times in
Pasadena, Calif., where he is
Band Gives
First Concert
The Bethel band, under the dir-ection
of Charles Erickson, made
its first formal appearance at a
concert held in the fieldhouse last
night. The band, consisting of 28
members, played numbers ranging
from marches to overtures. The
three main selections by the band
were "Symphony No. 5 in E Min-or"
by Dvorak, "The Student
Prince" by Romberg, and the
Overture "Eroica" by Beethoven.
Soloist for the concert was Janet
Lindquist, freshman French horn
player, who played "Serenade" by
Titl.
Korean
Chooses
Bethel
by Paul Schlueter
Because she found a college cat-alog
inscribed "The House of God"
in the American embassy in Seoul,
Korea, pretty Seunghi ("happy
writer") Choi is at Bethel. Arriv-ing
last Saturday morning after
a 50-hour flight via Northwest
Orient Airlines, Seunghi, or Nan,
cy, as she prefers to be called,
shyly answered the queries of
eager CLARION reporters about
her home, her trip, and her im-pressions
of both the United States
and Bethel.
Nancy is entering Bethel as a
freshman, although she was a jun-ior
at the Ewha Women's univer-sity
in Seoul, where she was maj-oring
in social work. She speaks
excellent English, having studied
it for nine years. Her tuition is
being paid through a scholarship
and she will meet room and board
expenses by working in the din-ing
hall.
Nancy's grandfather was a god-ly
Methodist minister in Korea
and her parents are also Christ-ians.
She has three sisters and
one brother, all younger. Her fa-ther
is manager of the company
that distributes food to most of
the ROK army.
When asked her impressions of
America after only a few hours in
the country, Nancy said that she
thought the that the cities were all
"so big and clean . . . the streets
are all so wide!" Nancy had an
enthusiastic smile to offer with
her reply when she was asked a-bout
her first few hours at Bethel.
"The people are all so friendly,
and all so . . . so nice! I am sure
that I will enjoy my life at Bethel"
Mr. Gesswein began to preach
when he was in his teens and has
preached in western Europe and
all over the United States. He was
in his early twenties when he be-came
a leader in the great revival
in Norway during the early part
of the Second World War. He help-ed
preparations for the Los Ang-eles
revival campaign of 1949
which mare Billy Graham nation-ally
known. At one time he taught
at Gordon college in Boston.
His messages, which emphasize
prayer and personal revival, may
also be heard in the evenings of
the same days at Central Baptist
church in St. Paul.
Faculty, Course
Changes Announced
New faces will appear in the ranks of the faculty, as well as new
courses in the curriculum, winter quarter.
Robert Sandin will be teaching the Twentieth Century Europe his-tory
course winter and spring quarters to permit Mr. Fagerstrom more
time to study the college curriculum. Mr. Sandin is a Bethel college and
seminary graduate and is now working on his doctorate at the University
of Minnesota.
Community health is a new course being offered winter quarter this
year. It will be taught by Joy Philips, former missionary of the Baptist
General conference to the North Bank of Assam, India. She received her
R. N. from Mounds-Midway School of Nursing and her B. S. from the
University of Minnesota, where she is now majoring in psychiatric nurs-ing.
This course, a requirement for all persons entering education, deals
with public and family health problems.
Human physiology, a course offered only when sufficient students
register, will be offered winter quarter. This course, dealing with the
functions of the human body, will be taught by either a faculty member
or a graduate student from the University of Minnesota.
Gessewein Begins Sem
Series Dec. 6: Prayer
The Rev. Armin R. Gesswein, internationally known Bible teacher
and leader in revival effort, will speak here in four extended seminary
chapel services from December 6 through 10.
is active in establishing pastor's prayer
his greatest interest. He has been in the
connection with this mission. His home is
a leader of prayer groups that hold prayer
conferences twice a year that are
attended by several hundred pas-tors.
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Dear editor:
My roommate requested that I
write this letter to clear up just
one little incident. She does not
like the idea of living with a mar-ried
woman! I don't like it very
much myself, but what could I do ?
There it was in black and white
in the Royal Roster. That little m
in parenthesis behind • my name
could mean only one thing—that
I was married. It came as quite a
shock since I couldn't imagine
anyone making such an awful mis-take.
But that's all it was—just
one horrible mistake.
MISS Carol Petry
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Tuesday, November 15, 1955
Editoirea4
Why Keep It A Secret?
Recently the CLARION asked for a list of the tentative chapel
speakers so that we could publicize the persons who were coming.
The answer came back that it was the "policy" of the chapel plan-ning
committee not to give out information of this kind. The main
reason for this it seems is that students will tend to pick the chapels
they want to attend. (?) Perhaps this is not the only reason. If so,
we would surely appreciate further explanation.
On the other hand, if this is the only reason, it's pretty uncon-vincing.
The student should have a right to choose chapels, just as
he has free choice in going to chapel at all. In fact, it is downright
insulting to an intelligent Christian who wants to know wheter he
should come expecting to hear a visiting evangelist, a faculty mem-ber,
devotional readings, a gospel team, one of the students' organi-zations
"in action," or to take part in a prayer meeting, testimony
meeting, or singspiration and so on.
There is the argument that everyone will choose the good
chapels and forsake the not-so-good chapels. Tut,
tut, that argument is more harm than help. Fault finding is more
likely to result when one comes expecting anything and everything
but accepting little of nothing.
It has been the view of the CLARION that the chapel hour is
one of devotion. We still maintain this view. What we are trying to
say is that chapel has more meaning when we can have some fore-knowledge
of what's to come in the mid-morning breath of prayer
and worship. If nothing more, announcing chapel for a week in
advance could be tried as an experiment or the speaker (or pro-gram)
could be posted on the bulletin board each day.
We all like secrets but it is mighty wearisome playing "button,
button, who's got the button" every morning about 9:45
What Th' Blazes!
Many Bethelites were concerned, a few angry, and an even smaller
number amused by the premature lightings of the Homecoming bonfire
a couple weeks back. To say that it was all in fun would not excuse
the practical jokery. Rather, the firebugs should have stayed around
and got another "laugh" watching Eric and the Homecoming committee
scrounging around for material for rebuilding the first fire while the
rest of the campus was asleep. Then, not satisfied with one showing of
childish bravado, the firebugs razed the second heap.
YOU CAN'T WIN
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO—(ACP)
— The Wittenberg TORCH lists
this one in its favorite story sec-tion:
A successful businessman on a
visit to his alma mater dropped in
on his economics professor. Re-calling
that he used to have trou-ble
with economics exams, he ask-ed
to see some of the current pap-ers.
Noting them casually, he ob-served:
"These are the same old ques-tions."
"Yes" agreed the professor, "We
never change the questions."
"But" said the visitor, "Don't
you know the students will pass
the questions from class to class ?"
"Certainly" was the bland re-ply,
"But in economics, we always
change the answers."
N. B. — Walfred Peterson
ion on this short but serious prob-lem,
we prefer to hope for an
early winter. Some might be in-terested
to know, however, that
the girl who set up this copy was
wearing Bermuda shorts.
Hines to Sing
At Northrup
Jerome Hines, the Metropolitan
Opera's six-foot six-inch American
basso will appear in concert Nov.
22 in Northrop Auditorium on
the University of Minnesota cam-pus
under the auspices of the Uni-versity
Artists Course. This is Mr.
Hines' eighth tour of the United
States and Canada under the man-agement
of S. Hurok.
"De (lott Smart-tam
(Reprinted from the Christian Century, August 30, 1955)
"A certain Freshman went from home to college and she fell
among critics who said that she had no style, that her manners
were awkward, and that she had an unattractive personality. Then
they stripped her of her self-confidence, her enthusiasm, and her
courage, and departed, leaving her hurt, lonely, and half dead.
"And when the Seniors saw it, they were amused, saying,
`What a good job the Sophomores are doing on the Freshman' ;
and they passed by on the other side.
"In like manner the Juniors also, when they saw it, smiled
and said, 'Yea, verily, for she hath not the making of a good sor-ority
girl' ; and they passed by on the other side.
"But a certain special student, as she went about, came where
the Freshman was, and when she saw the Freshman she was moved
with compassion, and came to her and bound up her wounds, pour-ing
in sympathy and understanding ; and she took the Freshman
to her room and set her on her feet again, and brought her into
her own circle, and was a friend to her.
"Which of these, thinkest thou, proved a neighbor to her that
fell among the critics ? Go and do thou likewise!"
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From Sweden To Bethel
Except for World War II, Astrid Wahlberg, freshman, might still
be living on a small island in the Baltic instead of enjoying the life of
a student at Bethel.
"Ozzie," as she is better known, prefers not to emphasize early
childhood experiences. It was her great-grandparents who moved to the
Swedish-held island near Estonia on which she was born. In the early
war period the little island changed hands rapidly from Sweden to
Russia and finally to Germany. In 1943, when she was eight, she and
her parents escaped by boat to Stockholm.
Swedish schools ?—Much stricter and harder according to "Ozzie,"
who went through grammar school and part of high school in Stock-holm.
An example of this, she says, is the greater formality between
teachers and students there. "Ozzie's" Christian life began in Stock-holm,
too, when she was twelve. She regularly attended a Baptist
church although she was nominally Lutheran. One of the differences
she found in coming to Chicago was more Christian young people.
Becoming dissatisfied with life in Sweden, "Ozzie's" father brought
his family to the States in January, 1953. The only English "Ozzie"
knew when she came to Chicago was the "British English" she had
learned to read in school.
"The first half year I didn't talk very much," she admitted. "Every-body
was teasing me." She felt it took about a year before she was really
at home. Now she is thoroughly Americanized and is not interested in
going back to Sweden except to visit.
Bethel-wise, "not enough social life" says "Ozzie," who would like
to see more planned social activities for all students on campus. In gen-eral,
however, she is well-satisfied with Bethel. According to her a col-lege
like this, with a Christian emphasis, doesn't exist in Sweden.
Zetteta to Elie Ederen
To the Editors:
The Victory committee of the
United Faculty gladly accepts the
challenge to a basketball game
with the CLARION.
The sub-committee in charge of
rules recommended the following
changes in present rules, and these
were approved by the Victory
committee: "1. The quarters shall
not be longer than five minutes
and there will be four quarters to
the whole, 2. The 1953-54 rules for
the three-second zone shall apply."
The same sub-committee also
passed the following resolution,
which has received Victory com-mittee
approval: "Be it resolved
that the Clarion team be composed
of actual Clarion staff, unlike for-mer
years when so-called "re-porters"
and "photographers" were
added to the staff with unseemly
haste shortly before the contest."
It was regretted that attention
had to be called to this matter
by the resolution, but the faculty
standards are such that it can ill
afford to encounter this sort of
regrettable "packing" again.
Sincerely,
Victory committee of
the United Faculty
A college student is one who
enters his alma mater as a
freshman dressed in green, and
emerges as a senior dressed in
black. The intermediate pro-cess
of decay is known as a col-lege
education.
KAMPUS
WOTES
THESE ARE THE TIMES
from the Augustana college
(Rock Island, Ill. )0BSERVER:
We prefer to worry about Ber-muda
shorts. There are undoubt-edly
those who are worrying about
the Republican party's chances
with Eisenhower sick; the disin-tegration
of the British Empire;
or still more likely, the World
Series. Our problem is more ab-breviated.
The question of should girls (or
boys, or for that matter—animate
objects) wear Bermuda shorts has
been batted around campuses for
almost a year now. The latest out-break
of discussion comes from
Wheaton college where the Whea-ton
RECORD, a paper that sel-dom
fails to amuse, conducted a
"Pro-Con" column on the subject.
Wheaton has forbidden girls to
wear their Bermudas downtown or
at picnics, etc.
One Art Kinsler, who is the
"con-man" in this case says,
"Scripture gives injunctions that
`the woman shall not wear that
which pertains unto a man.' (Deut.
22:5). To be perfectly blunt, a
girl's legs can be a stumbling
block just as much as anything
listed in the pledge."
.. Watch your terminology, son.
Girls "should realize that the
boys like to think of girls as being
femininely different — not copies
of men, especially of little boys in
knee pants."
We can tell a little boy in
knee pants from a girl in Ber-mudas
nine times out of ten.
"One of the tragedies of modern
times is the breakdown of the
family. A prime cause is the dis-satisfaction
of women with their
traditional place. Today's woman
should realize that happiness lies
in the traditions of the past, not
in present disillusionments or fu-ture
aberrations."
Anyone for bound feet?
A girl, Lee Moramarco, takes
the "pro" side of the argument.
". . a coed who abstains from
wearing Bermuda shorts is abnor-mal.
Apart from the moral facet,
Bermuda shorts are practical.
They are in good taste at picnics.
They are very sensible for the
rough and tumble games at many
of our class parties."
What kind of parties ?
"Bermuda shorts are the trade-mark
of coeds throughout the
country. The townsfolk would not
think twice if they saw the Whea-ton
girls in Bermudas. They might
even take a little pride in the typi-calness
of their college town. In
fact, some of them might realize
that the 'cloister on the hill' is
really a college."
As for the OBSERVER'S opin-
Yes, There's Room For Study!
Quietly I tip-toed down the hall to room three in the college build-ing.
Since the teachers suggested study here I wanted to see how many
students were taking advantage of it but I didn't want to disturb them.
I thought it was awfully quiet but as I approached the door—surprise-the
lights weren't even on. Not many people were studying here I
decided.
Next I decided to try the coffee shop and lounge. Nary a soul was
to be found in the coffee shop but the lights were all ablaze in the
lounge. Aha! At last I would find them. Still walking quietly I got in
far enough to see that no one was on the end. Perhaps in the other
corner there would be someone and I looked hopefully around the cor-ner.
I was disappointed again. The lights were on inviting study at
least.
Why let this electricity go to waste ? The library gets pretty full
and not so quiet at times and here are three convenient places to study.
Not that everyone should pile into the lounge but it seems that the
sudents could be distributed a little more to offer better study conditions
to everyone.
The same thing happened
elsewhere on college campus-es.
At Valparaiso university,
Valparaiso, Indiana, on the
night before the celebrations,
arsonists set off the 59-foot
pile of railroad ties that fresh-men
fellows built. The entire
school cooperated in rebuild-ing
the mound, and by mid-afternoon,
a 30-foot structure
topped with two old pianos
was ready. Faculty members
volunteered to watch the new
bonfire to prevent any further
arson.
At Carleton college, Northfield,
Minnesota, the freshmen Oles from
neighboring St. Olaf college play-ed
firebug by setting off the
Carls' fire. But the Carls were
apparently faster than those on
other campuses; some of the Oles
were caught and their heads shav-ed.
One possible answer has
been suggested to eliminate
firebugs' pranks next year at
Bethel: have freshmen fellows
assigned to watch the bonfire
around-the-clock f r o m the
time of building until the
actual burning. Regardless of
whatever finally is decided,
let's show some respect for
the efforts behind this tradi-tion.
Co-captains Bill Conrad and Howie Rekstad, teamates at Minne-haha
academy and at Bethel for the past two years, now elected to
lead this year's squad.
only weakness has been his in-consistency.
He has had bad
nights but as the year pro-gressed
they were fewer and
farther between.
They will lead this year's team
to what they hope will be a suc-cessful
season.
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Basketball Opener
At Concordia Nov. 23
Bill and Howie
Co-captains
Center Howie Rekstad and guard
Bill Conrad were chosen co-cap-tains
of this year's basketball
squad.
Howie has been one of the
main offensive threats for the
past two years, scoring main-ly
on hooks and jump shots.
His ball handling ability is
very good and his excellent
faking gives him many layups.
Last year he was in a slump
when Coach Peterson tried him
at forward position where he was
ineffective. When he was moved
back to the hole, he poured 41
points in in the next contest. This
year Howie has played center ex-clusively
and that is where he
probably will stay.
Bill's co-ordination a n d
dribbling have made him
a very interesting player to
watch. His set shot and a one
handed jump made him high
scorer on last year's team. His
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Faculty Panicky
As Dec. 7 Nears
Bethel Humor Night will be held
in the fieldhouse Dec. 7,
The Clarion has challenged the
faculty to a small game of basket-ball,
and the faculty has had the
courage to accept.
The levity, however, must be
kept to a minimum when the fac-ulty
trundles ponderously up and
down the floor. A professor de-mands
respect.
It has been reported
that Mr. Walfred Pet-erson
is practicing the twenty
yard dash to get in condition for
the game—so that his runs from
the bench to the water fountain
will be finessical. He has also pur-chased
a large bottle of hair oil
so that he will be able to see the
scoreboard.
Mr. Healy is busily searching
the twin cities for an appropriate
costume that will fit, and Mr. Del
Ray Peterson is practicing his end-of-
the-game-shots from the center
of the floor.
Mr. Lundin is endeavoring to
discover why there aren't first
downs in basketball, and Mr. Fag-erstrom
is searching with equal
fervor for the reason why there
are.
Mr. Bass is in training in the
coffee shop.
But regardless how the faculty
is preparing, the Clarion promises
to keep the score down.
Bethel's 1955 basketball team
opens the season Wednesday, No-vember
23, at Concordia in the
first game of a four game road
trip. Traveling over the Thanks-giving
weekend, the team will play
at Itasca on Friday, November 25;
Bemidji on Saturday, November
26; and Wahpeton on Monday, No-vember
28. The first home game
will be against Northland on Sat-urday,
December 3.
This year's squad is still un-tested
as only Rekstad, Conrad,
and Almeroth have had extensive
service with the Royals.
Of the new players on the club,
Terry Bottenfield, Mark Ryberg,
and Don Knoner have been most
impressive. Terry's best assets are
his jumpshot and general ball han-dling
ability which fit him best
for a guard position. Mark, a
center in high school, has shifted
to a forward. He is very quick for
a 6' 4" player and his work a-round
the board has caused Coach
Peterson to build his team's play
around the double post. Don Kno-ner
is probably the best driver on
the club and thrives on a fast
break type of play.
Conrad (Mr. Outside), Rekstad
(Mr. Inside), Smith, and Almeroth
have been scoring well. Jim has
developed a good jump shot which
may earn him a starting position.
Other members of the club in-clude:
Linden Johnson, Paul Lar-son,
Ron Eckert, Dale Larson and
John Cedar.
The team has been seriously
hampered by the loss of four key
players. Burleson, a starter for
two years is transferring to the
University of Minnesota, Dick Ab-rahamson
and Don Redin are leav-ing
school and Bib Singleton's
study schedule requires all his
time. The loss of these players, of
course, is serious, but the team
still looks superior to last year's.
B-Squad Joins League
The Bethel "B" basketball squad
has joined a league which includes
the University of Minnesota farm
school, Northwestern "B" squad,
Minnesota School of Business,
Chiropractor's School, Mt. Olivet
Lutheran Church, and Bethel. Mr.
Healy is coach of the Bethel team.
The first game will be with the
farm school on Dec. 1 here.
All the games except the first
one will be preliminary contests,
on a home and away schedule.
This league has been in opera-tion
before. There will be a play-off
at the end of the season.
Astrid Barbins and Elfriede Mohr Stress
tae,rdee
by Bev Carlson
It's all over. the string's gone; the tin lid is too. Five off-campus
girls are confined to their rooms without communication. Also without
food.
You see, Bethel girls get drastically hungry while studying within
the confines of their rooms. Thus, in sharing food with one's friends, a
system for conveying the food from one house to the house next door
presents a problem. This problem was solved by five ingenious misses,
namely Carol Engholm, Marilyn Ogren, Meme Olander, Shirley Ander-son,
and Retha Creech.
The sturdy nylon string was attached to a tin lid in one house and
to a hairbrush in the house next door. It was a good little string. A tug
on it aroused one's friends sooner than any telephone. It withstood many
tugs. The little string conveyed boxes of cookies so nicely. Yes, it with-stood
the weight of many cookies.
The little string could withstand anything, they thought. But there
was one thing it could not withstand, and that one thing the girls over-looked.
Yes, the landlady only tugged at the string once, and it was
seen no more.
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Tuesday, November 15, 1955
Exams Fill The Weekend
THURSDAY, NOV. 17
8:00-10:00
Conducting—Rm. 204
Exper. Psychology—Rm. 202
General Biology—Chapel
General Zoology—Rm. 212
Intro. Coll. Chem.—Rm. 312
New Test. Exegesis—Rm. 210
10:20-12:20
Adv. Composition—Rm. 204
American History—Rm. 212
Christ in Gospels—Rm. 210
Church Music—Sem. 3
Contemp. Philosophy—Rm. 211
Inst. of Primitive People—Rm. 303
Intro. to Rel. Educ.—Rm. 202
Prob. of Philosophy—Chapel
Survey of Anc. Civ.—Rm. 3
1:15- 3:15
Amer. Government—Rm. 210
First Aid—Gym B-6
Gen. Chemistry—Rm. 312
FRIDAY, NOV. 18
8:00-10:00
Fund. of Speech—Chapel
Social Control—Rm. 3
10 :20-12 :20
Beginning Greek—Rm. 211
Beginning German—Rm. 212
Beginning Spanish—Rm. 210
Beginning Swedish—Rm. 202
General Physics—Rm. 312
Geog. of Phys. Res.—Rm. 303
Music Theory II—Rm. 204
Oral Interp. of Lit.—Rm. 3
Phys. Educ. Activities—Gyb B-6
Ren. and Reformation—Chapel
Secretarial Practice—Rm. 4
Statistics—Rm. 109
The Amer. Pol. Party—Chapel
1:15- 3:15
Freshman Composition—Chapel
Missions Week
Was Tops
by Phil Caldeen
Missions week was climaxed
last Saturday night by a rally that
was much like last year's, ques-tions
being asked of a forum of
missionaries by means of a "rov-ing
mike" in the audience. This
brought to a close a week that had
the marks of quality that only
hard work can produce. It is in
order to congratulate and thank
those who were connected with all
the preparation, notably Bryan
Harris and the Foreign Missions
Fellowship.
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Freedom Contrast In
That Americans should be thank-ful
for the freedom they have was
stressed by Astrid Barbins and
Elfriede Mohr recently at the
B. W. A. Thanksgiving meeting.
Both Astrid and Elfriede were
victims of evacuation from their
homes when the Russians ravaged
their native lands of Latvia and
Yugoslavia during World War II.
Lacking material things during
this time, they found that God
provided. Although they sacrificed
many luxuries and some necessi-ties,
they never were completely
without food and shelter. Whether
it was only one potato per family
and a barn in which to rest, they
prpved that God cares for His
children.
"Many times we thank God
for the pleasant things, but
it's so hard to be thankful for
the dark clouds. We should
remember that even the dark
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MONDAY, NOV. 21
8:00-10:00
Engr. Drawing—Rm 312
Indiv. Differences—Rm. 202
Phil. of Science—Rm. 210
Shakespeare—Rm. 212
The Family—Rm. 211
10 :20-12 :20
Abnormal Psychology—Rm. 211
American Literature—Rm. 212
Art Introduction—Rm. 204
Basic Business—Rm. 3
Intermed. Swedish—Rm. 202
Music Appreciation—Chapel
Quant. Analysis—Rm. 303
The Field of Social Work—Rm. 3
1:15- 3:15
Bible Survey—Chapel
TUESDAY, NOV. 22
8 :00-10 :00
Analytic Geometry—Rm. 3
Basic Typing—Rm. 4
Hist. of Philosophy—Rm. 210
Inter. Greek—Rm. 211
Intro. to Educ.—Rm. 204
Intro. to Sociology—Chapel
Physical Science—Rm. 312
Principles of Econ.—Rm. 202
Rel. Educ. for Children—Rm. 303
Romantic Movement—Rm. 212
10 :20-12 :20
Music Literature—Rm. 204
World History—Chapel
Soc. and Intellectual History
of U. S.—Rm. 212
1:15- 3:15
Intro. to Eng. Lit.—Chapel
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23
8 :00-10 :00
Patterns of Chr. Thought—Chapel
Refresher English—Rm. 211
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Weak at a Glance
Wednesday, November 16—
Last day of classes.
Thursday, November 17—
Examinations
Friday, November 18—
Examinations
Saturday, November 19—
Study
Monday, November 21—
Examinations
Tuesday, November 22—
Examinations
Wednesday, November 23—
Examinations
Thursday, November 24—
Whew! Thanksgiving
10 :20-12 :20
Beginning Shorthand—Rm. 3
Fund. of Music—Rm. 204
Higher Algebra—Rm. 312
Inter. German—Rm. 212
Inter. Spanish—Rm. 210
Plants Useful to Man—Rm. 303
1:15- 3:15
Expansion of Christianity—Rm. 3
General Psychology—Chapel
20th Cent. Europe—Rm. 212
ATTENTION: No changes in
examination schedules will be
made except by approval of the
Registrar's Office, and any re-quest
for such approval must be
made in writing not later than one
week after the announcement or
posting of the final examination
schedule for the quarter. This
means that such request must be
in not later than Tuesday, Novem-ber
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clouds have silver linings,"
commented Astrid as she re-lated
her experience of escape.
"How many of you have built a
church with your own hands ?"
Elfriede asked. She then related
how her family did this and then
trudged seven • miles to and from,
church every Sunday, regardless
of weather. To be caught taking
the Lord's Supper from teacups
would be instant death, they rea-lized,
but still they continued in
their faith. "Too many times we're
afraid to tell our fellow Christians
that 'I'm a Christian'," were Elf-riede's
heart-piercing words.
Interspersing these vivid ac-counts
were a solo by Mrs.
Robert Smith, a vocal duet by
Georgia Schultz and Sandra
Myrberg, and a flute duet by
Rosemary Carlson and Carol
Schnorr. All were centered a-round
a Thanksgiving theme.
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School of Nursing, operated in connection with Mounds
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• Our next class begins in June, 1956. Applications should
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Senate Discusses Finance
Committee, Arts Program
The establishment of a financial clearing committee was of primary
importance at the Student Senate meeting held last Tuesday afternoon
in the college chapel. This committee will include the Student Senate
treasurer, the financial secretary, and a treasurer from each council,
and it will collectively decide on whether requests for activity financial
needs will be granted. The treasurer, acting as chairman of the finan-cial
clearing committee, will report to the Senate at its bi-weekly
meeting, and the month's financial expenditures will be officially voted
on.
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Vol. XXXIII—No. 3 Published by Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, November 15, 1955
New Philosophy Course
A new philosophy course fea-turing
Augustine and Kierkegaard
will be offered in the winter quar-ter,
Dr. Clarence Bass has an-nounced.
The new course will be
open to any upper division student
subject to the instructor's ap-proval.
This offering will be a part of
the senior philosophy sequence
which includes Contemporary Phil-osophy,
Kant, and Thomas Aqui-nas.
The teaching of Kant, sched-uled
for winter quarter, will be in-cluded
in the spring quarter with
Thomas Aquinas.
"I felt since most of our stu-dents
do not plan on graduate
work in philosophy, they would
not profit by going into so much
detail on Kant," explained Dr.
Bass, who initiated the change.
"By studying Augustine and Kier-kegaard,
they will gain an under-standing
of the bases of Reformed
theology and of contemporary
theology."
Twilight and
Tinsel Dec.10
The big formal event of the
year, Twilight and Tinsel, will take
place on Saturday evening, Decem-ber
10, 1955.
The tentative place for the ban-quet
will be the Junior Ballroom
Galley four
located at the University of Min-nesota.
Sponsored by the cultural coun-cil,
Twilight and Tinsel is an an-nual
affair.
Caldeen Names
Clarion Staff
Clarion staff appointments for
this year were announced by Edi-tor
Phil Caldeen recently. The
members have been chosen from
approximately fifty who register-ed
a decided interest in working
on the Clarion.
Marilyn Carlson has been ap-pointed
layout editor. Janet Lan-des
is assistant news editor. Dick
Nelson is proofreader. Jim Mac-
Fadyen and Donelda Hoover are
rewriters.
The reporters are Arlene Berg-strom,
Junetta Best, Barbara
Brandt, Luther Bostrack, Mary
Fredrickson, lou Guston, Margie
Kling, Joy Kundy, Lois Larson
and Sharon Kingan.
Typists are Astrid Barbins, Alice
Barnes, Joyce Hellickson, Ramona
Jensen, Emily Mattson, Joan Swit-zer
and Lavonne Tieszen.
The circulation staff includes
manager Betty Nord, Bob Hames,
Ruth Irons and Coreen Berry.
Spire to Go
To Printers
The first section of the 1956
Spire will go to the printer Dec-ember
15. This will include the in-troduction,
the academic section,
and the class pictures.
To make the Spire more repre-sentative
of student life is one of
the goals that the staff has set.
Additional improvements will be
revealed when the yearbook comes
out this spring.
Marge Peterson is the editor of
this year's Spire. Other staff mem-bers
are Carol Martinson, assist-ant
editor; Vivian Weekley, copy
editor; Bob Fischer, business man-ager;
Marilyn Hagstrom, photo-graphy
editor.
Debaters
Speak Up
At Augsburg
Bethel college debate teams took
part in their first intercollegiate
debates on Nov. 10 at Augsburg
college in Minneapolis. Bethel was
represented by four teams com-posed
of Jim MacFadyen and Jack
Tierney, Fred Schindeler and Donn
Goss, Marjory Peterson and Betty
Mattson, and Doug Oelke and
Bruce Richardson. They won five
of their 12 debates.
Thirty-four other teams from
nine other schools also participat-ed
in the Augsburg tournament.
On Nov. 11 two Bethel teams
composed of Chuck Paton and
Donn Goss and Marjory Peterson
and Betty Mattson debated at a
meet at the State Teachers' col-lege
in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The
meet also included contests in ora-tory,
discussion, and extemporan-eous
speaking.
Next Saturday debate coach Lee
Kingsley will take four of his de-baters
to Bradley university in
Peoria, Illiois, for the annual Mid-west
debate tourney. Marjory and
Betty are scheduled to participate
in a women's tournament at Man-kato
State Teachers' college.
Frosh Choir
Makes Debut
The freshman choir made its
initial appearance at Bethlehem
Baptist church last Sunday night
under the direction of Mr. Nels
Stjernstrom, freshman advisor.
The choir sang "All Hail the Pow-er
of Jesus Name," "0 For A
A motion was carried to
grant the cultural council
$150.00 to supplement $450.00
to come from the miscellan-eous
fund for the support of a
Renaissance program to be
presented in the spring. Ex-penditures
for such a program
will include entertainment by
Miss Suzanne Bloch, a lectur-er
from the University of
Minnesota, and rental of two
Shakespearean films.
A recommendation petition will
be submitted to the administration
suggesting the unlocking of the
lounge during chapel services. It
was argued that a locked lounge
defeats the purpose of an open
chapel service, and that students
determined to skip the service will
do so anyway.
A faculty rating program
was approved with the inten-tion
of providing a construc-tive
means for evaluation of
classes and instructors by
Bethel students.
Thousand Tongues," and "Majes-tic
Sweetness Sits Enthroned." A
presentation of testimonies through
the verses of songs was a unique
feature of the program. The class
officers hope that the choir can
make more appearances as a
means of promoting unity in the
class.
FACULTY ACCEPTS
CLARION CHALLENGE
Currently Mr. Gesswein
groups for revival, which is
Twin Cities several times in
Pasadena, Calif., where he is
Band Gives
First Concert
The Bethel band, under the dir-ection
of Charles Erickson, made
its first formal appearance at a
concert held in the fieldhouse last
night. The band, consisting of 28
members, played numbers ranging
from marches to overtures. The
three main selections by the band
were "Symphony No. 5 in E Min-or"
by Dvorak, "The Student
Prince" by Romberg, and the
Overture "Eroica" by Beethoven.
Soloist for the concert was Janet
Lindquist, freshman French horn
player, who played "Serenade" by
Titl.
Korean
Chooses
Bethel
by Paul Schlueter
Because she found a college cat-alog
inscribed "The House of God"
in the American embassy in Seoul,
Korea, pretty Seunghi ("happy
writer") Choi is at Bethel. Arriv-ing
last Saturday morning after
a 50-hour flight via Northwest
Orient Airlines, Seunghi, or Nan,
cy, as she prefers to be called,
shyly answered the queries of
eager CLARION reporters about
her home, her trip, and her im-pressions
of both the United States
and Bethel.
Nancy is entering Bethel as a
freshman, although she was a jun-ior
at the Ewha Women's univer-sity
in Seoul, where she was maj-oring
in social work. She speaks
excellent English, having studied
it for nine years. Her tuition is
being paid through a scholarship
and she will meet room and board
expenses by working in the din-ing
hall.
Nancy's grandfather was a god-ly
Methodist minister in Korea
and her parents are also Christ-ians.
She has three sisters and
one brother, all younger. Her fa-ther
is manager of the company
that distributes food to most of
the ROK army.
When asked her impressions of
America after only a few hours in
the country, Nancy said that she
thought the that the cities were all
"so big and clean . . . the streets
are all so wide!" Nancy had an
enthusiastic smile to offer with
her reply when she was asked a-bout
her first few hours at Bethel.
"The people are all so friendly,
and all so . . . so nice! I am sure
that I will enjoy my life at Bethel"
Mr. Gesswein began to preach
when he was in his teens and has
preached in western Europe and
all over the United States. He was
in his early twenties when he be-came
a leader in the great revival
in Norway during the early part
of the Second World War. He help-ed
preparations for the Los Ang-eles
revival campaign of 1949
which mare Billy Graham nation-ally
known. At one time he taught
at Gordon college in Boston.
His messages, which emphasize
prayer and personal revival, may
also be heard in the evenings of
the same days at Central Baptist
church in St. Paul.
Faculty, Course
Changes Announced
New faces will appear in the ranks of the faculty, as well as new
courses in the curriculum, winter quarter.
Robert Sandin will be teaching the Twentieth Century Europe his-tory
course winter and spring quarters to permit Mr. Fagerstrom more
time to study the college curriculum. Mr. Sandin is a Bethel college and
seminary graduate and is now working on his doctorate at the University
of Minnesota.
Community health is a new course being offered winter quarter this
year. It will be taught by Joy Philips, former missionary of the Baptist
General conference to the North Bank of Assam, India. She received her
R. N. from Mounds-Midway School of Nursing and her B. S. from the
University of Minnesota, where she is now majoring in psychiatric nurs-ing.
This course, a requirement for all persons entering education, deals
with public and family health problems.
Human physiology, a course offered only when sufficient students
register, will be offered winter quarter. This course, dealing with the
functions of the human body, will be taught by either a faculty member
or a graduate student from the University of Minnesota.
Gessewein Begins Sem
Series Dec. 6: Prayer
The Rev. Armin R. Gesswein, internationally known Bible teacher
and leader in revival effort, will speak here in four extended seminary
chapel services from December 6 through 10.
is active in establishing pastor's prayer
his greatest interest. He has been in the
connection with this mission. His home is
a leader of prayer groups that hold prayer
conferences twice a year that are
attended by several hundred pas-tors.
the CLARION
PRESS
PHIL CALDEEN, editor
MARIE MAGNUSON,
ass't. editor
Hope Seffens and June Sparling,
feature-news editors
Allan Stahnke, sports editor
Ripley Moore, rewrite editor
Paul Schlueter, business mgr.
Issued weekly during the school
year by Bethel College and
Seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn.
Subscription price: $3.00
Dear editor:
My roommate requested that I
write this letter to clear up just
one little incident. She does not
like the idea of living with a mar-ried
woman! I don't like it very
much myself, but what could I do ?
There it was in black and white
in the Royal Roster. That little m
in parenthesis behind • my name
could mean only one thing—that
I was married. It came as quite a
shock since I couldn't imagine
anyone making such an awful mis-take.
But that's all it was—just
one horrible mistake.
MISS Carol Petry
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Tuesday, November 15, 1955
Editoirea4
Why Keep It A Secret?
Recently the CLARION asked for a list of the tentative chapel
speakers so that we could publicize the persons who were coming.
The answer came back that it was the "policy" of the chapel plan-ning
committee not to give out information of this kind. The main
reason for this it seems is that students will tend to pick the chapels
they want to attend. (?) Perhaps this is not the only reason. If so,
we would surely appreciate further explanation.
On the other hand, if this is the only reason, it's pretty uncon-vincing.
The student should have a right to choose chapels, just as
he has free choice in going to chapel at all. In fact, it is downright
insulting to an intelligent Christian who wants to know wheter he
should come expecting to hear a visiting evangelist, a faculty mem-ber,
devotional readings, a gospel team, one of the students' organi-zations
"in action," or to take part in a prayer meeting, testimony
meeting, or singspiration and so on.
There is the argument that everyone will choose the good
chapels and forsake the not-so-good chapels. Tut,
tut, that argument is more harm than help. Fault finding is more
likely to result when one comes expecting anything and everything
but accepting little of nothing.
It has been the view of the CLARION that the chapel hour is
one of devotion. We still maintain this view. What we are trying to
say is that chapel has more meaning when we can have some fore-knowledge
of what's to come in the mid-morning breath of prayer
and worship. If nothing more, announcing chapel for a week in
advance could be tried as an experiment or the speaker (or pro-gram)
could be posted on the bulletin board each day.
We all like secrets but it is mighty wearisome playing "button,
button, who's got the button" every morning about 9:45
What Th' Blazes!
Many Bethelites were concerned, a few angry, and an even smaller
number amused by the premature lightings of the Homecoming bonfire
a couple weeks back. To say that it was all in fun would not excuse
the practical jokery. Rather, the firebugs should have stayed around
and got another "laugh" watching Eric and the Homecoming committee
scrounging around for material for rebuilding the first fire while the
rest of the campus was asleep. Then, not satisfied with one showing of
childish bravado, the firebugs razed the second heap.
YOU CAN'T WIN
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO—(ACP)
— The Wittenberg TORCH lists
this one in its favorite story sec-tion:
A successful businessman on a
visit to his alma mater dropped in
on his economics professor. Re-calling
that he used to have trou-ble
with economics exams, he ask-ed
to see some of the current pap-ers.
Noting them casually, he ob-served:
"These are the same old ques-tions."
"Yes" agreed the professor, "We
never change the questions."
"But" said the visitor, "Don't
you know the students will pass
the questions from class to class ?"
"Certainly" was the bland re-ply,
"But in economics, we always
change the answers."
N. B. — Walfred Peterson
ion on this short but serious prob-lem,
we prefer to hope for an
early winter. Some might be in-terested
to know, however, that
the girl who set up this copy was
wearing Bermuda shorts.
Hines to Sing
At Northrup
Jerome Hines, the Metropolitan
Opera's six-foot six-inch American
basso will appear in concert Nov.
22 in Northrop Auditorium on
the University of Minnesota cam-pus
under the auspices of the Uni-versity
Artists Course. This is Mr.
Hines' eighth tour of the United
States and Canada under the man-agement
of S. Hurok.
"De (lott Smart-tam
(Reprinted from the Christian Century, August 30, 1955)
"A certain Freshman went from home to college and she fell
among critics who said that she had no style, that her manners
were awkward, and that she had an unattractive personality. Then
they stripped her of her self-confidence, her enthusiasm, and her
courage, and departed, leaving her hurt, lonely, and half dead.
"And when the Seniors saw it, they were amused, saying,
`What a good job the Sophomores are doing on the Freshman' ;
and they passed by on the other side.
"In like manner the Juniors also, when they saw it, smiled
and said, 'Yea, verily, for she hath not the making of a good sor-ority
girl' ; and they passed by on the other side.
"But a certain special student, as she went about, came where
the Freshman was, and when she saw the Freshman she was moved
with compassion, and came to her and bound up her wounds, pour-ing
in sympathy and understanding ; and she took the Freshman
to her room and set her on her feet again, and brought her into
her own circle, and was a friend to her.
"Which of these, thinkest thou, proved a neighbor to her that
fell among the critics ? Go and do thou likewise!"
~eiedocsaeitied
From Sweden To Bethel
Except for World War II, Astrid Wahlberg, freshman, might still
be living on a small island in the Baltic instead of enjoying the life of
a student at Bethel.
"Ozzie," as she is better known, prefers not to emphasize early
childhood experiences. It was her great-grandparents who moved to the
Swedish-held island near Estonia on which she was born. In the early
war period the little island changed hands rapidly from Sweden to
Russia and finally to Germany. In 1943, when she was eight, she and
her parents escaped by boat to Stockholm.
Swedish schools ?—Much stricter and harder according to "Ozzie,"
who went through grammar school and part of high school in Stock-holm.
An example of this, she says, is the greater formality between
teachers and students there. "Ozzie's" Christian life began in Stock-holm,
too, when she was twelve. She regularly attended a Baptist
church although she was nominally Lutheran. One of the differences
she found in coming to Chicago was more Christian young people.
Becoming dissatisfied with life in Sweden, "Ozzie's" father brought
his family to the States in January, 1953. The only English "Ozzie"
knew when she came to Chicago was the "British English" she had
learned to read in school.
"The first half year I didn't talk very much," she admitted. "Every-body
was teasing me." She felt it took about a year before she was really
at home. Now she is thoroughly Americanized and is not interested in
going back to Sweden except to visit.
Bethel-wise, "not enough social life" says "Ozzie," who would like
to see more planned social activities for all students on campus. In gen-eral,
however, she is well-satisfied with Bethel. According to her a col-lege
like this, with a Christian emphasis, doesn't exist in Sweden.
Zetteta to Elie Ederen
To the Editors:
The Victory committee of the
United Faculty gladly accepts the
challenge to a basketball game
with the CLARION.
The sub-committee in charge of
rules recommended the following
changes in present rules, and these
were approved by the Victory
committee: "1. The quarters shall
not be longer than five minutes
and there will be four quarters to
the whole, 2. The 1953-54 rules for
the three-second zone shall apply."
The same sub-committee also
passed the following resolution,
which has received Victory com-mittee
approval: "Be it resolved
that the Clarion team be composed
of actual Clarion staff, unlike for-mer
years when so-called "re-porters"
and "photographers" were
added to the staff with unseemly
haste shortly before the contest."
It was regretted that attention
had to be called to this matter
by the resolution, but the faculty
standards are such that it can ill
afford to encounter this sort of
regrettable "packing" again.
Sincerely,
Victory committee of
the United Faculty
A college student is one who
enters his alma mater as a
freshman dressed in green, and
emerges as a senior dressed in
black. The intermediate pro-cess
of decay is known as a col-lege
education.
KAMPUS
WOTES
THESE ARE THE TIMES
from the Augustana college
(Rock Island, Ill. )0BSERVER:
We prefer to worry about Ber-muda
shorts. There are undoubt-edly
those who are worrying about
the Republican party's chances
with Eisenhower sick; the disin-tegration
of the British Empire;
or still more likely, the World
Series. Our problem is more ab-breviated.
The question of should girls (or
boys, or for that matter—animate
objects) wear Bermuda shorts has
been batted around campuses for
almost a year now. The latest out-break
of discussion comes from
Wheaton college where the Whea-ton
RECORD, a paper that sel-dom
fails to amuse, conducted a
"Pro-Con" column on the subject.
Wheaton has forbidden girls to
wear their Bermudas downtown or
at picnics, etc.
One Art Kinsler, who is the
"con-man" in this case says,
"Scripture gives injunctions that
`the woman shall not wear that
which pertains unto a man.' (Deut.
22:5). To be perfectly blunt, a
girl's legs can be a stumbling
block just as much as anything
listed in the pledge."
.. Watch your terminology, son.
Girls "should realize that the
boys like to think of girls as being
femininely different — not copies
of men, especially of little boys in
knee pants."
We can tell a little boy in
knee pants from a girl in Ber-mudas
nine times out of ten.
"One of the tragedies of modern
times is the breakdown of the
family. A prime cause is the dis-satisfaction
of women with their
traditional place. Today's woman
should realize that happiness lies
in the traditions of the past, not
in present disillusionments or fu-ture
aberrations."
Anyone for bound feet?
A girl, Lee Moramarco, takes
the "pro" side of the argument.
". . a coed who abstains from
wearing Bermuda shorts is abnor-mal.
Apart from the moral facet,
Bermuda shorts are practical.
They are in good taste at picnics.
They are very sensible for the
rough and tumble games at many
of our class parties."
What kind of parties ?
"Bermuda shorts are the trade-mark
of coeds throughout the
country. The townsfolk would not
think twice if they saw the Whea-ton
girls in Bermudas. They might
even take a little pride in the typi-calness
of their college town. In
fact, some of them might realize
that the 'cloister on the hill' is
really a college."
As for the OBSERVER'S opin-
Yes, There's Room For Study!
Quietly I tip-toed down the hall to room three in the college build-ing.
Since the teachers suggested study here I wanted to see how many
students were taking advantage of it but I didn't want to disturb them.
I thought it was awfully quiet but as I approached the door—surprise-the
lights weren't even on. Not many people were studying here I
decided.
Next I decided to try the coffee shop and lounge. Nary a soul was
to be found in the coffee shop but the lights were all ablaze in the
lounge. Aha! At last I would find them. Still walking quietly I got in
far enough to see that no one was on the end. Perhaps in the other
corner there would be someone and I looked hopefully around the cor-ner.
I was disappointed again. The lights were on inviting study at
least.
Why let this electricity go to waste ? The library gets pretty full
and not so quiet at times and here are three convenient places to study.
Not that everyone should pile into the lounge but it seems that the
sudents could be distributed a little more to offer better study conditions
to everyone.
The same thing happened
elsewhere on college campus-es.
At Valparaiso university,
Valparaiso, Indiana, on the
night before the celebrations,
arsonists set off the 59-foot
pile of railroad ties that fresh-men
fellows built. The entire
school cooperated in rebuild-ing
the mound, and by mid-afternoon,
a 30-foot structure
topped with two old pianos
was ready. Faculty members
volunteered to watch the new
bonfire to prevent any further
arson.
At Carleton college, Northfield,
Minnesota, the freshmen Oles from
neighboring St. Olaf college play-ed
firebug by setting off the
Carls' fire. But the Carls were
apparently faster than those on
other campuses; some of the Oles
were caught and their heads shav-ed.
One possible answer has
been suggested to eliminate
firebugs' pranks next year at
Bethel: have freshmen fellows
assigned to watch the bonfire
around-the-clock f r o m the
time of building until the
actual burning. Regardless of
whatever finally is decided,
let's show some respect for
the efforts behind this tradi-tion.
Co-captains Bill Conrad and Howie Rekstad, teamates at Minne-haha
academy and at Bethel for the past two years, now elected to
lead this year's squad.
only weakness has been his in-consistency.
He has had bad
nights but as the year pro-gressed
they were fewer and
farther between.
They will lead this year's team
to what they hope will be a suc-cessful
season.
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Basketball Opener
At Concordia Nov. 23
Bill and Howie
Co-captains
Center Howie Rekstad and guard
Bill Conrad were chosen co-cap-tains
of this year's basketball
squad.
Howie has been one of the
main offensive threats for the
past two years, scoring main-ly
on hooks and jump shots.
His ball handling ability is
very good and his excellent
faking gives him many layups.
Last year he was in a slump
when Coach Peterson tried him
at forward position where he was
ineffective. When he was moved
back to the hole, he poured 41
points in in the next contest. This
year Howie has played center ex-clusively
and that is where he
probably will stay.
Bill's co-ordination a n d
dribbling have made him
a very interesting player to
watch. His set shot and a one
handed jump made him high
scorer on last year's team. His
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Faculty Panicky
As Dec. 7 Nears
Bethel Humor Night will be held
in the fieldhouse Dec. 7,
The Clarion has challenged the
faculty to a small game of basket-ball,
and the faculty has had the
courage to accept.
The levity, however, must be
kept to a minimum when the fac-ulty
trundles ponderously up and
down the floor. A professor de-mands
respect.
It has been reported
that Mr. Walfred Pet-erson
is practicing the twenty
yard dash to get in condition for
the game—so that his runs from
the bench to the water fountain
will be finessical. He has also pur-chased
a large bottle of hair oil
so that he will be able to see the
scoreboard.
Mr. Healy is busily searching
the twin cities for an appropriate
costume that will fit, and Mr. Del
Ray Peterson is practicing his end-of-
the-game-shots from the center
of the floor.
Mr. Lundin is endeavoring to
discover why there aren't first
downs in basketball, and Mr. Fag-erstrom
is searching with equal
fervor for the reason why there
are.
Mr. Bass is in training in the
coffee shop.
But regardless how the faculty
is preparing, the Clarion promises
to keep the score down.
Bethel's 1955 basketball team
opens the season Wednesday, No-vember
23, at Concordia in the
first game of a four game road
trip. Traveling over the Thanks-giving
weekend, the team will play
at Itasca on Friday, November 25;
Bemidji on Saturday, November
26; and Wahpeton on Monday, No-vember
28. The first home game
will be against Northland on Sat-urday,
December 3.
This year's squad is still un-tested
as only Rekstad, Conrad,
and Almeroth have had extensive
service with the Royals.
Of the new players on the club,
Terry Bottenfield, Mark Ryberg,
and Don Knoner have been most
impressive. Terry's best assets are
his jumpshot and general ball han-dling
ability which fit him best
for a guard position. Mark, a
center in high school, has shifted
to a forward. He is very quick for
a 6' 4" player and his work a-round
the board has caused Coach
Peterson to build his team's play
around the double post. Don Kno-ner
is probably the best driver on
the club and thrives on a fast
break type of play.
Conrad (Mr. Outside), Rekstad
(Mr. Inside), Smith, and Almeroth
have been scoring well. Jim has
developed a good jump shot which
may earn him a starting position.
Other members of the club in-clude:
Linden Johnson, Paul Lar-son,
Ron Eckert, Dale Larson and
John Cedar.
The team has been seriously
hampered by the loss of four key
players. Burleson, a starter for
two years is transferring to the
University of Minnesota, Dick Ab-rahamson
and Don Redin are leav-ing
school and Bib Singleton's
study schedule requires all his
time. The loss of these players, of
course, is serious, but the team
still looks superior to last year's.
B-Squad Joins League
The Bethel "B" basketball squad
has joined a league which includes
the University of Minnesota farm
school, Northwestern "B" squad,
Minnesota School of Business,
Chiropractor's School, Mt. Olivet
Lutheran Church, and Bethel. Mr.
Healy is coach of the Bethel team.
The first game will be with the
farm school on Dec. 1 here.
All the games except the first
one will be preliminary contests,
on a home and away schedule.
This league has been in opera-tion
before. There will be a play-off
at the end of the season.
Astrid Barbins and Elfriede Mohr Stress
tae,rdee
by Bev Carlson
It's all over. the string's gone; the tin lid is too. Five off-campus
girls are confined to their rooms without communication. Also without
food.
You see, Bethel girls get drastically hungry while studying within
the confines of their rooms. Thus, in sharing food with one's friends, a
system for conveying the food from one house to the house next door
presents a problem. This problem was solved by five ingenious misses,
namely Carol Engholm, Marilyn Ogren, Meme Olander, Shirley Ander-son,
and Retha Creech.
The sturdy nylon string was attached to a tin lid in one house and
to a hairbrush in the house next door. It was a good little string. A tug
on it aroused one's friends sooner than any telephone. It withstood many
tugs. The little string conveyed boxes of cookies so nicely. Yes, it with-stood
the weight of many cookies.
The little string could withstand anything, they thought. But there
was one thing it could not withstand, and that one thing the girls over-looked.
Yes, the landlady only tugged at the string once, and it was
seen no more.
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Tuesday, November 15, 1955
Exams Fill The Weekend
THURSDAY, NOV. 17
8:00-10:00
Conducting—Rm. 204
Exper. Psychology—Rm. 202
General Biology—Chapel
General Zoology—Rm. 212
Intro. Coll. Chem.—Rm. 312
New Test. Exegesis—Rm. 210
10:20-12:20
Adv. Composition—Rm. 204
American History—Rm. 212
Christ in Gospels—Rm. 210
Church Music—Sem. 3
Contemp. Philosophy—Rm. 211
Inst. of Primitive People—Rm. 303
Intro. to Rel. Educ.—Rm. 202
Prob. of Philosophy—Chapel
Survey of Anc. Civ.—Rm. 3
1:15- 3:15
Amer. Government—Rm. 210
First Aid—Gym B-6
Gen. Chemistry—Rm. 312
FRIDAY, NOV. 18
8:00-10:00
Fund. of Speech—Chapel
Social Control—Rm. 3
10 :20-12 :20
Beginning Greek—Rm. 211
Beginning German—Rm. 212
Beginning Spanish—Rm. 210
Beginning Swedish—Rm. 202
General Physics—Rm. 312
Geog. of Phys. Res.—Rm. 303
Music Theory II—Rm. 204
Oral Interp. of Lit.—Rm. 3
Phys. Educ. Activities—Gyb B-6
Ren. and Reformation—Chapel
Secretarial Practice—Rm. 4
Statistics—Rm. 109
The Amer. Pol. Party—Chapel
1:15- 3:15
Freshman Composition—Chapel
Missions Week
Was Tops
by Phil Caldeen
Missions week was climaxed
last Saturday night by a rally that
was much like last year's, ques-tions
being asked of a forum of
missionaries by means of a "rov-ing
mike" in the audience. This
brought to a close a week that had
the marks of quality that only
hard work can produce. It is in
order to congratulate and thank
those who were connected with all
the preparation, notably Bryan
Harris and the Foreign Missions
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victims of evacuation from their
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their native lands of Latvia and
Yugoslavia during World War II.
Lacking material things during
this time, they found that God
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Indiv. Differences—Rm. 202
Phil. of Science—Rm. 210
Shakespeare—Rm. 212
The Family—Rm. 211
10 :20-12 :20
Abnormal Psychology—Rm. 211
American Literature—Rm. 212
Art Introduction—Rm. 204
Basic Business—Rm. 3
Intermed. Swedish—Rm. 202
Music Appreciation—Chapel
Quant. Analysis—Rm. 303
The Field of Social Work—Rm. 3
1:15- 3:15
Bible Survey—Chapel
TUESDAY, NOV. 22
8 :00-10 :00
Analytic Geometry—Rm. 3
Basic Typing—Rm. 4
Hist. of Philosophy—Rm. 210
Inter. Greek—Rm. 211
Intro. to Educ.—Rm. 204
Intro. to Sociology—Chapel
Physical Science—Rm. 312
Principles of Econ.—Rm. 202
Rel. Educ. for Children—Rm. 303
Romantic Movement—Rm. 212
10 :20-12 :20
Music Literature—Rm. 204
World History—Chapel
Soc. and Intellectual History
of U. S.—Rm. 212
1:15- 3:15
Intro. to Eng. Lit.—Chapel
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23
8 :00-10 :00
Patterns of Chr. Thought—Chapel
Refresher English—Rm. 211
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Wednesday, November 16—
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Thursday, November 17—
Examinations
Friday, November 18—
Examinations
Saturday, November 19—
Study
Monday, November 21—
Examinations
Tuesday, November 22—
Examinations
Wednesday, November 23—
Examinations
Thursday, November 24—
Whew! Thanksgiving
10 :20-12 :20
Beginning Shorthand—Rm. 3
Fund. of Music—Rm. 204
Higher Algebra—Rm. 312
Inter. German—Rm. 212
Inter. Spanish—Rm. 210
Plants Useful to Man—Rm. 303
1:15- 3:15
Expansion of Christianity—Rm. 3
General Psychology—Chapel
20th Cent. Europe—Rm. 212
ATTENTION: No changes in
examination schedules will be
made except by approval of the
Registrar's Office, and any re-quest
for such approval must be
made in writing not later than one
week after the announcement or
posting of the final examination
schedule for the quarter. This
means that such request must be
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